Global warming: 2020, one of the hottest years on record
With 1.2 degrees above pre-industrial era temperatures, 2020 is currently the second warmest year on record.
In the Arctic, temperatures have approached 40 degrees.
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Five years after the Paris agreements, the state of the climate is more worrying than ever.
The year 2020 is not yet over as it will already be one of the three hottest on record.
This is what the World Meteorological Organization is advancing on Wednesday.
The pandemic and the economic downturn will not change that.
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From our correspondent in Geneva
,
Jérémie Lanche
2020 is the year of superlatives: record warming of the oceans and temperatures approaching 40 degrees in the Arctic.
But also
massive fires in Australia
, California and even Siberia.
In addition to a particularly active hurricane season, undoubtedly influenced by global warming.
With 1.2 degrees above pre-industrial era temperatures, 2020 is currently the second warmest year on record.
During the decade 2010-2020, it is also the hottest year on record.
There is therefore nothing to celebrate, especially since the
La Niña
phenomenon
in the Pacific should have helped to cool the atmosphere somewhat.
As for containment, it has played almost
no role in greenhouse gases
.
Emissions continued to increase, just less rapidly.
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2020 is fast becoming one of the three hottest years on record.
Extreme weather events worsen the impact of COVID-19. Https://t.co/OCYjS5LHG0 pic.twitter.com/OZYnN03a08
- World Meteorological Organization (@WMO) December 2, 2020
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